Another gathering of people concerned about animal welfare visited city hall today to maintain pressure on the city to sever its connection with Berger Blanc.
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Slightly elegiac piece on the decline of Little Italy as a truly Italian neighbourhood, the younger generation decamped to the suburbs and the older ones dying off.
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Interesting piece on the doubtful long-term wisdom of replacing all industrial areas with residential ones.
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Alison Cummins
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Kate
We’ve all turned into paper-pushers and generators of mouse clicks, but it could turn bad if we ever start having to make our own widgets again.
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The presence of drug shooting galleries has seen a precipitate decline in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
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Ian
“Personne ne commet de vol ou ne se prostitue pour repeindre sa cuisine…» illustre le commandant.” Nice. But on the other hand, socioeconomic factors besides crack cocaine do lead to crime, like, oh, low standards of education, endemic poverty, and high unemployment typical of a more or less abandoned community – the city has millions uponmillions to pour into the quartier des spectacles or bixi but HoMa just stays the same.
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There seems to be a trend for less internal investigation at city hall – or, at least, lower bills for investigative firms.
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Ian
Wait until they learn that not investigating at all will not only save money but increase profits! Well, for individual officials anyhow.
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Sunday is the 25th annual museums day offering seven free bus routes to 32 free museums; there’s also a cultural festival this weekend around Pointe-à-Callière.
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A little late for Saturday but this sale of tomato plants and other seedlings goes on till 4 p.m. and continues tomorrow; there’s also the Rendez-vous horticole at the botanical garden; that costs $14 to get in but offers a lot of gardening-related products and advice.
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Chris
Purple tomatos are awesome! They have the wrong dates on that page, or it’s not for this year?
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Kate
The front page said welcome 2011 so I assumed it was this weekend. I do hope I haven’t misdirected anyone!
And the purple ones are wonderful. They’re not as productive as modern hybrids, but sooooo tasty.
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Onetime singing vedette Alys Robi has died in Montreal. She was 88.
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Champlain and Mercier bridge repairs have been delayed by the rain. The Richelieu valley also expects more rain all week and Jean Charest has toured the area and is asking people there not to panic but to make sure they’re safe; he has promised three teams to help flood victims to shelter, help them clean up, and assess the terrain for the future.
Yes! Ditto the condo construction along the railroad tracks. It looks pretty now, but I’ve been worrying about the disappearance of light industry. Where are the people who live here supposed to work? If transportation becomes more expensive, will vast tracts of residential/retail be viable or do we get collapse of the inner city?